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Police seize contraband headed for Beaver Creek Institution

Alliston woman charged after police called to Gravenhurst correctional facility

NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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On Aug. 13 at 11:05 a.m. Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were contacted by staff at the Beaver Creek correctional facility about packages that were located during a routine vehicle search.

The packages were suspected to contain contraband intended for inside the institution.

OPP attended the correctional facility and assisted their canine unit to arrest and charge 27-year-old Nychell Ellison of Alliston with the following charges:

  • Possession of contraband beyond the visitor control point in a penitentiary
  • Delivers contraband to or receives contraband from an inmate
  • Possession for the purpose of distributing
  • Distribute over 30 grams of dried cannabis
  • Possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime under $5,000

Ellison will appear on Sept. 27 in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge to answer to her charges.

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